Calculate distance with variable lat and lon values

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Calculate distance with variable lat and lon values

nitapita

I have a problem with implementing variables into a function that calculate distance between 2 latitudes, longitudes.
One of them is constant, and the second one being passed from the form.

Here is the code:

$lon1 = $_POST['lon1'];
        $lat1 = $_POST['lat1'];
        $lon2 = '-0.30020239';
        $lat2 = '51.58734910';

function distance($lat11, $lon11, $lat22, $lon22) { 
        $theta = $lon11 - $lon22; 
        $dist = sin(deg2rad($lat11)) * sin(deg2rad($lat22)) +  cos(deg2rad($lat11)) * cos(deg2rad($lat22)) * cos(deg2rad($theta)); 
        $dist = acos($dist); 
        $dist = rad2deg($dist); 
        $miles = $dist * 60 * 1.1515;
                return $miles;
}

echo "
$lon1, $lat1<br>
$lon2, $lat2<br>";
//////////  return good calculation
echo distance(52.611644, -0.26304, 51.58734910, -0.30020239) . " miles<br>";

////////// my way - return wrong calculation 
echo distance("$lon1", "$lat1", 51.58734910, -0.30020239) . " miles<br>";

As long as i have lat, lon values hardcoded is fine, but idea is to have this calculation done from variables.
Both will vary .... tried different configurations ... i'm losing it ...

How should I code it ??

Thanks for your help in advance!

NogDog

Looks like you have your latitude and longitude parameters transposed when you call your distance() function. (It's defined as lat, long, lat, long, but you've called it as long, lat, log, lat.)

nitapita

wow, how could i not see that .. blind ... works perfect.

Thank you for opening my eyes.

SOLVED